Jon Bradshaw
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| birth_date = 1938
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1986|11|25|1938|}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| education = Columbia University
| alma_mater = Church Farm School
| occupation = journalist
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| spouse = Carolyn Pfeiffer
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Jon Bradshaw (1938 – November 25, 1986){{Cite web|title=Jon Bradshaw - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp157489/jon-bradshaw|access-date=2022-02-04|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en}} was a journalist, author, and contributing editor to Esquire.{{Cite news|date=1986-11-27|title=Jon Bradshaw, 48, an Author And Esquire Magazine Editor|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/27/obituaries/jon-bradshaw-48-an-author-and-esquire-magazine-editor.html|access-date=2022-02-04|issn=0362-4331}}
Biography
Bradshaw was born in New York City and graduated from Church Farm School. He also attended Columbia University.
He wrote for the New York Herald Tribune before moving to England to write for Queen, British Vogue, and The Sunday Times before returning to the United States to join the staff of the New York magazine.
He died of a heart attack at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center on November 25, 1986, at age 48. His works included a biography on actress/singer Libby Holman and books on backgammon and covered the lives of professional gamblers.{{Cite web|title=Author Jon Bradshaw Dead Of Heart Attack|url=https://apnews.com/article/546eec73f1f1d1cdca07904c92c7cd5c|access-date=2022-02-04|website=AP NEWS|language=en}}
Bradshaw was famous for his lifestyle and journalism, and many of his works were compiled in a 2021 anthology The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations and published by Ze Books.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=Scott Berg and Alex Belth on the Timelessness of Jon Bradshaw's Journalism|url=https://lithub.com/scott-berg-and-alex-belth-on-the-timelessness-of-jon-bradshaws-journalism/|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2021-07-11|title=Los Angeles Review of Books|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-day-at-the-beach-on-jon-bradshaws-the-ocean-is-closed/|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|language=en}} He was also in a relationship with Anna Wintour before marrying producer Carolyn Pfeiffer.{{Cite web|title=Bradshaw: The Indiana Jones of Magazine Journalism {{!}} The Stacks Reader|url=http://thestacksreader.com/bradshaw-the-indiana-jones-of-magazine-journalism-jon-bradshaw-anna-wintour/|access-date=2022-02-04|language=en-US}} He has two children. He was called the "Indiana Jones of magazine journalism" by Esquire editor Alex Belth.{{Cite news|last=Belth|first=Alex|date=2021-08-08|title=Meet the Indiana Jones of Magazine Journalism|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-indiana-jones-of-magazine-journalism|access-date=2022-02-04}}
Works
- {{cite book |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Jon |title=The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations |date=2021 |publisher=ZE Books |isbn=978-1-7335401-4-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UT6uzQEACAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |title=Fast Company: How Six Master Gamblers Defy the Odds - and Always Win |date=2003 |publisher=High Stakes |isbn=978-1-84344-013-0 |language=en}}
- {{cite book |title=Dreams that Money Can Buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman |date=1985 |publisher=W. Morrow |isbn=978-0-688-01158-1 |language=en}}
References
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Category:Columbia University alumni
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